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Akiko Yamada was born in Chiba, Japan. She began playing the piano at the age of six. Her first public performance was when she was seven years old. A little later, she was admitted to the Toho-Gakuen School of Music, where also Seiji Ozawa and Mitsuko Uchida studied. She received piano lessons and also learnt conducting and singing.

In 1997 Akiko Yamada was invited to Germany to perform a solo recital in Dresden. The same year she moved to Berlin to study at Berlin University of the Arts. After she had finished her bachelor’s degree, she continued her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she obtained her master’s degree with the highest honor in 2003.

In the season of 2010/11 Akiko Yamada played at Vienna’s Volkstheater in Moises Kaufman's “33 Variationen” (produced by Stephanie Mohr, title role: Maria Bill) parts from Ludwig van Beethoven's “Diabelli-Variations”. After the great success of this production she held her debut in the Brahms-Saal at the Musikverein Vienna with a performance of the complete “Diabelli-Variations” in October 2011.

Akiko Yamada appears as a soloist in concert halls across Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan. She performed Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with the Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur. She worked for Radio/TV programs (ORF, Arte) and the German-Austrian documentary film “Pianomania”.

At present she lives in Vienna. Apart from her career as a pianist she writes music criticism in the Japanese music magazines “Ongaku Gendai” and “Ongaku no Tomo”.

Kontakt : kontakt@akikoyamada.at